To HELL with Taxis

darc

B$%tards

Wow, so they are suffering from a drop in business & income just like everyone else.

If you're a taxi driver listen to this NO ONE FORCES YOU TO DRIVE THE TAXI!

If its not making you money, go get another job. And before the mass crowd of eejits say there are no jobs, over 200,000 people commenced work in the first 6 months of this year (CSO figures)

As of now, unless it is absolutely necessary I WILL NOT be using a taxi for the forseeable future. I will get an airlink to the airport, I will use the luas when in Dublin, and the nite link to get home.

Sorry taxis - your protests are telling me you don't give a damn sh1te about the public (your customers) so in return I don't give a damn sh1te about you.

Theta

Well they are not going to get the public on there side doing this.

Can someone tell me why the shades cant just tow all the cars? Or ticket them at least. If it was a go slow I know they cant but they are actually just parked.

furtzy

They are a shower of dickheads. Way to get the public onside!! Why are they not being towed? A few years ago they were pleading for deregulation and now they want to operate a closed shop again...idiots.

pandabat

I was wondering the same thing. I actually also rang Store St yesterday to find out if there were any protests on today as I know someone who has to do something in city centre and they said "no, nothing planned". I've read of no arrests, clamping, towing or tickets being issued. I guess for free parking on O'Connell St, you just say that you are protesting against something.

Bandit12

I won't say what i really think of them as i'd be banned.

Dragan

Bandit12 wrote: »

I won't say what i really think of them as i'd be banned.

Oh aren't you a bad boy!

Bandit12

Dragan wrote: »

Oh aren't you a bad boy!

Bad girl don't you mean? :rolleyes: Nice try anyway's

average_runner

They are moaning beause they have to work hard for their income now and it dropped!

No one helped the IT peolpe when it went belly up in 2000.


Basically Taxi people its called supply and demand, if you cant go the distance just quit.

Also if you notice alot of the taxi license numbers are high numbers and these are the ones giving out. They knew what they were getting into.


All the ones that worked years ago and made their oney jsut operate part time now.

Lollipops23

I got in a taxi at the airport last week (at half 11 at night) and the driver threw the mother of all hissy fits when we told him our address(we live 15 mins from the airport but had no alternative transport).

He tried to tell us a bus runs from the airport to our estate, it doesn't, he refused to accept this. He told us how not worth his while the fare was, as he'd been queuing for 2 hrs. I agree,it's a bummer,but it's not our fault.

When we asked if he would prefer us to get a different cab,he said no but proceeded to bitch and rant ALL THE WAY home,even after I politely asked him several times to stop talking about it.



So no, as far as I'm concerned,the taxi drivers can fúck off. I've had one too many bad experiences at this point. Also, the government aren't helping the retail trade, which is in bits too.

eviltwin

I have sympathy for anyone suffering a loss of income at the moment but their bully boys tactics don't exactly win them many favours.

My boss got a taxi into work yesterday. The guy who picked her up knew nothing of the protest. When the car got onto O'Connell St a taxi driver came up and banged on the window calling her and the driver all sorts of names. They have no class and I have no time for anyone who tries that kind of intimidation to get their point across.

I didnt see any taxis supporting anyone who was being made redundant all year and yet we are expected to support them??? No way...last night going home up Gardiner Street I felt so sorry for people walking home because they held the city to ransom. I saw two ambulances with sirens blazing stuck in gridlock ... I hope to god the people in them were okay.

Maybe if they stop throwing all their toys out of the pram and stopped acting like the thugs they are for 5 minutes and starting acting professional people might be a bit more inclined to see their points of view. As is they have done themselves no favours.

Jip

Apparently it's mostly culchie (I'm allowed say that as I married one) taxi drivers, afraid I'd say to do this in their own towns and cities knowing well the backlash they'd face there.

pvt.joker

Lollipops23 wrote: »

I got in a taxi at the airport last week (at half 11 at night) and the driver threw the mother of all hissy fits when we told him our address(we live 15 mins from the airport but had no alternative transport).

He tried to tell us a bus runs from the airport to our estate, it doesn't, he refused to accept this. He told us how not worth his while the fare was, as he'd been queuing for 2 hrs. I agree,it's a bummer,but it's not our fault.

When we asked if he would prefer us to get a different cab,he said no but proceeded to bitch and rant ALL THE WAY home,even after I politely asked him several times to stop talking about it.

did you get his number? report him to the taxi regulator

eirmail

Would anyone else be interested in a national day of protest against taxi drivers? One day in the next few weeks where we get everyone to refuse to take a taxi for that day.

LookBehindYou

average_runner wrote: »

They are moaning beause they have to work hard for their income now and it dropped!

No one helped the IT peolpe when it went belly up in 2000.

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NOBODY helped the taxi people when deregulation happened end 2000

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Basically Taxi people its called supply and demand, if you cant go the distance just quit.

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Quit ? and do what ?

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Also if you notice alot of the taxi license numbers are high numbers and these are the ones giving out. They knew what they were getting into.

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Get your facts correct about the license numbers, all the original numbers were changed to high numbers, so there is no real way of knowing which numbers are old or new. Even the older taximen would not even know their new number. BUT i agree on the point that it is mainly new people in the taxi trade who are striking.

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All the ones that worked years ago and made their oney jsut operate part time now.[/quote

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HA HA,,, more fantasy,,, The only ones who made their money were people who sold their plates BEFORE deregulation.

I would question how a lot of these new drivers have got their PSV driving licence, because they dont know their way around, and also a lot of them have questionable backgrounds. There was a time when it would be safe to get a taxi home,,, but now ?

eviltwin

Look behind you I dont think many people mind them protesting...god knows everyone and their mother is doing that at the minute...its just the agressive way they are going about it....shower of **** the lot of them

Evil_Clown

Jip wrote: »

Apparently it's mostly culchie (I'm allowed say that as I married one) taxi drivers, afraid I'd say to do this in their own towns and cities knowing well the backlash they'd face there.

That is a ridiculous statement :rolleyes:
Did you overhear it on the bus (Marys sister told me that her brother who works in Dunnes knows a man who works in a shop beside a taxi rank and he said that all the other taxi drivers were sayin that the taxi drivers striking on O'Connell street are mostly people who are Irish but were not born in Dublin)

Jip

How is it ridiculous ? Tell you what, before you make another accusation like that take a walk down to the protest, open your eyes and look at some of the signs they're holding and also look at their licence. Then maybe have a listen to some of the radio interviews since it began.

The least you could do it try give me a reason why it's ridiculous rather than give me the standard "a friend of a mothers dog told me" crap. You're some clown alright.

Whispered

Taxi drivers are as entitled to protest the same as any sector of the community. Just because SOME are agressive with it, or gives out about a fare etc doesn't mean ALL of them are agressive or ignorant. Thats just silly.

I've never had a bad experience in a taxi, funnily, a driver friend of mine has been seriously assaulted a few times and doesn't go around saying how ALL non drivers are agressive and dangerous. I'm sure he realises how stupid a generalisation like that sounds.

Gumbyman

Who the Hell do they think they are? The sheer arrogance of it astounds me. "I want such and such but instead of going about it through the proper channels I am going to disrupt the nation's capital and fcuk people's days up when they are trying to get home, pick up their kids, and go about their lives." Attacking your customers is not good for business. The dogs on the street know that. Woof fcuking woof.

By the by does anybody know are there disruptions on the Luas today as a result of this stunt?

Sharpshooter

Jip wrote: »

How is it ridiculous ? Tell you what, before you make another accusation like that take a walk down to the protest, open your eyes and look at some of the signs they're holding and also look at their licence. Then maybe have a listen to some of the radio interviews since it began.

The least you could do it try give me a reason why it's ridiculous rather than give me the standard "a friend of a mothers dog told me" crap. You're some clown alright.

Banned.

Keep it civil guys!

zefer

pandabat wrote: »

I was wondering the same thing. I actually also rang Store St yesterday to find out if there were any protests on today as I know someone who has to do something in city centre and they said "no, nothing planned". I've read of no arrests, clamping, towing or tickets being issued. I guess for free parking on O'Connell St, you just say that you are protesting against something.

I have been asking everyone that question since yesterday, how have they not been either towed or clamped. If I got 30 or 40 of my mates and went down to O'Connell Street and parkeed our cars. I guarantee that we'd be towed within 15 minutes. Its a disgrace

Tellox

Not all taxi drivers are striking - the one I've spoken to said it's disgraceful for any industry to strike at a time like this; and not one person will feel any sympathy towards someone holding up the flow of traffic, and generally sitting on their arse making a show of themselves over a loss of a monopoly.

Sorry Taximen and women of Ireland - the taxi boom and the celtic tiger are long over. If you want a good salary along with flexible working hours, go to college and get yourself a degree. Making the entire country furious with you won't make this happen.

Mossy Monk

If all the culchie drivers are clogging up O Connell Street then that must mean none down here

Dragan

Bandit12 wrote: »

Bad girl don't you mean? :rolleyes: Nice try anyway's

Oh nice burn, you got someone for not being able to guess your sex on the internet.

Swish.

myflipflops

This is annoying:

I emigrate today. I would have gotten the aircoach to the airport but don't want to risk a major delay because it goes up O'Connell street. This means i have to order a taxi, pay €50 and potentially listen to the driver complain about the taxi industry and the struggle to make money. All this as I leave the country because I didn't feel my wage was up to scratch so I DID SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE ABOUT IT.

Dragan

pwhite587 wrote: »

This is annoying:

I emigrate today. I would have gotten the aircoach to the airport but don't want to risk a major delay because it goes up O'Connell street. This means i have to order a taxi, pay €50 and potentially listen to the driver complain about the taxi industry and the struggle to make money. All this as I leave the country because I didn't feel my wage was up to scratch so I DID SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE ABOUT IT.

Or, you could leave earlier?

phasers

Is there any way to ban the fcukers on O'Connell st from driving taxis anymore?

Those idiots are the number one problem with the industry.

How the hell am I supposed to get to college today? My stop is on O'Connell St

eviltwin

I dont really know what it is they are actually protesting about ... maybe someone can enlighten me...but dont they realise we are all piss poor. Even if they get what they want they arent going to have a lot of business suddenly coming their way..who can afford taxis nowadays anyway?

petes

eviltwin wrote: »

..who can afford taxis nowadays anyway?

I can.

Gummy Panda

eviltwin wrote: »

I dont really know what it is they are actually protesting about ... maybe someone can enlighten me...but dont they realise we are all piss poor. Even if they get what they want they arent going to have a lot of business suddenly coming their way..who can afford taxis nowadays anyway?

they don't want a yes vote to lisbon. also i heard a few yesterday talking about "taking off the skirts and blocking the whole street".

misstierney

There are a handful of decent taxi drivers.. but many are wankstains. My friend was quite drunk one night, got a taxi in from town alone and sat in the front seat-and the dirty bastard groped her! She did nothing about it, the eejet, but how dare he! He was foreign by the way.

Tom Cruises Left Nut

Honestly, what do they think they will accomplish here ?

I would think that if they have any support for gumming up the city it is a very small percentage of the people that have been inconvienced by the protest.

Its like nobody thought this through at all... "lets cause huge disruption around the city lads cause we ain't maiking enough money. Feck to the people we delay who are trying to get into work and are already clinging on to their jobs"

Its this kind of thing that annoys me about this country, everyone is suffering, certainly go ahead and make your voice heard but DO NOT do it in such a way that alienates you from the rest of the population.

We will end up like France ffs with transport strikes. Gonna call Cowen and get Al Murray in to fight this Frenchisation lol

Its just not fare ! (sorry)

prendy

i asked a garda on oconnell st yesterday why they dont just tow them away as they wernt parked in the rank.

he didnt answer..just told me to move along.

a$$hole!


I wonder if i parked at the spire how long my car would be there? it would be towed in 15mins.

Long Onion

misstierney wrote: »

He was foreign by the way.

Oh thank God for that then ... :rolleyes:

misstierney

*cough* Nigerian *cough*

cruiser178

Long Onion wrote: »

Oh thank God for that then ... :rolleyes:

:D:D

Evil_Clown

Jip wrote: »

How is it ridiculous ? Tell you what, before you make another accusation like that take a walk down to the protest, open your eyes and look at some of the signs they're holding and also look at their licence. Then maybe have a listen to some of the radio interviews since it began.

The least you could do it try give me a reason why it's ridiculous rather than give me the standard "a friend of a mothers dog told me" crap. You're some clown alright.

It's a ridiculous statement because you have no proof. Yes there will be some non-Dublin taxi drivers there but to come out with a sweeping statement like ' they are mostly cultchie taxi drivers' I don't think is fair.

Warfi

prendy wrote: »

he didnt answer..just told me to move along.

You were lucky you didn't get a ticket

petes

Look, some taxi men are cunts, some aren't. Same as the rest of the population.

SV

misstierney wrote: »

There are a handful of decent taxi drivers.. but many are wankstains. My friend was quite drunk one night, got a taxi in from town alone and sat in the front seat-and the dirty bastard groped her! She did nothing about it, the eejet, but how dare he! He was foreign by the way.

Yeah I heard of this taxi driver who went around murdering people and keeping their chopped up bodies in the boot of his car..


BASTÁRD TAXI DRIVERS!

jaysusjones

LookBehindYou wrote: »

average_runner wrote: »

They are moaning beause they have to work hard for their income now and it dropped!

No one helped the IT peolpe when it went belly up in 2000.

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NOBODY helped the taxi people when deregulation happened end 2000

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Basically Taxi people its called supply and demand, if you cant go the distance just quit.

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Quit ? and do what ?

---

Also if you notice alot of the taxi license numbers are high numbers and these are the ones giving out. They knew what they were getting into.

---

Get your facts correct about the license numbers, all the original numbers were changed to high numbers, so there is no real way of knowing which numbers are old or new. Even the older taximen would not even know their new number. BUT i agree on the point that it is mainly new people in the taxi trade who are striking.

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All the ones that worked years ago and made their oney jsut operate part time now.[/quote

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HA HA,,, more fantasy,,, The only ones who made their money were people who sold their plates BEFORE deregulation.

I would question how a lot of these new drivers have got their PSV driving licence, because they dont know their way around, and also a lot of them have questionable backgrounds. There was a time when it would be safe to get a taxi home,,, but now ?

You could format word documents for a living.....

My eyes hurt after reading that :eek:

darc

LookBehindYou wrote: »

average_runner wrote: »

They are moaning beause they have to work hard for their income now and it dropped!

No one helped the IT peolpe when it went belly up in 2000.

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NOBODY helped the taxi people when deregulation happened end 2000

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Basically Taxi people its called supply and demand, if you cant go the distance just quit.

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Quit ? and do what ?

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Ater deregulation a compensation scheme was put in place based on declared earnings over the previous 3 years or so.

Taxi drivers were saying that their incomes would drop by x amount, but when it came to handing out the compensation it amazed officials that most taxi drivers operated near to the minimum wage according to their tax returns and that the losses being made were a lot lower that they were claiming.


Quit & do what - as I said in the initial post over 200,000 (two hundred thousand) people started a job between January & June this year, and probably the same amount will start July to December. - All work is honest, look at a new career, keep the taxi whilst you are looking and when the new job comes, ditch the taxi.

Another alternative is to get taxis to provide a superior service, be polite to your customers, run it like any other service business whereby the rules are set by the needs of the customers and then you should be fine.

Block the streets, moan about everything under the sun and you'll find people won't use the service!

suimhneas

i couldn't agree more with the original poster, saw one of them on the news last night saying "if this continues, i wont have a job this time next year" like the rest of the bloody country. Another whinging about how little money he was making well its not bothering them today or yesterday if it was they would be at work and not sitting on their backsides obstructing the rest of us that have no bloody choice but to work our asses off to keep out bloody jobs that we might not have this time next week let alone next year.

CreepingDeath

SV wrote: »

Yeah I heard of this taxi driver who went around murdering people and keeping their chopped up bodies in the boot of his car..

BASTÁRD TAXI DRIVERS!

Probably charged them the extra luggage & soiling charges too :rolleyes:

CreepingDeath

Let's face it, taxi driving should be a low income occupation.

It requires no skills or qualifications only a car and a drivers license.
It's a low status job for the uneducated who want the benefits of being self employed.

In the past, license regulation made it a lucrative job but those days of artificially inflated incomes are over.
Taxi driving in other countries is a low income job too.

token56

misstierney wrote: »

*cough* Nigerian *cough*

Could you please explain what point you are trying to make by point out it was a foreigner who did it? Its not like every nationality including our own is known to do such stuff

orourkeda

They're all a pack of w*nkers. I wish they'd all f&ck off

Daroxtar

Jip wrote: »

Apparently it's mostly culchie (I'm allowed say that as I married one) taxi drivers, afraid I'd say to do this in their own towns and cities knowing well the backlash they'd face there.

Thats cause all the dubs were at home strung out on heroin

misstierney

Daroxtar wrote: »

Thats cause all the dubs were at home strung out on heroin

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Whilst the Nigerian ones were off groping drunk women..

CreepingDeath

token56 wrote: »

Could you please explain what point you are trying to make by point out it was a foreigner who did it? Its not like every nationality including our own is known to do such stuff

And different cultures have different tolerances and cultural values towards certain crimes and women.

By being too politically correct you're actually ignoring the difference between cultures which is probably more politically incorrect !

Professey Chin

CreepingDeath wrote: »

By being too politically correct you're actually ignoring the difference between cultures which is probably more politically incorrect !

A term I wish didnt exist